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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them"
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
between January 1, 1897 and November 1, 1973. He/she was a famous
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